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Technology Stocks : BORL: Time to BUY! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kashish King who wrote (7958)	12/9/1997 11:33:00 PM
From: shane forbes	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 10836

When BORL does not make the rules it's not in their best interest to act dumb. If MSFT does succeed in creating a MSFT version of JAVA it's in BORL's best interests to support that version. As well as the 100% Java version. No point in picking sides. Even excluding the portability promise, Java has some neat features that make it a better language than C++ for certain applications - memory management, better thread support and better exception handling come to mind. If this means Java can be used to write certain types of Windows programs faster then great. Port to Windows using any hooks necessary. So what... Having said that I hope MSFT fails at doing this. This Write Once Run Everywhere theme certainly sounds good. Even though it is not quite working out in the real world right now. But in time they'll get the kinks out. (hopefully) Saw that next year, developers are writing code to be "optimized" for MSIE as opposed to Netscape's browser, the current favorite. BORL is a small fish who cannot afford to chose sides. Even though MSFT is a big bully, BORL should stay out of the "religious" wars and let the market decide. SUN, IBM, MSFT, and ORCL can fight for whatever "standards" they want. They have the muscle to duke it out. If BORL picks wrong they'll be dust. Hence they should not bother and write to "both" JAVAs (or really JAVA and whatever-MSFT-calls-it).